Created by two developers from the HACKNY Fellows Class of 2014. who attend the University of Chicago and Columbia University, the program allows the fish’s movements in his bowl to be assigned to a button on the screen, allowing Hopper to simply swim, yet play the handheld classic.

Information posted on the livestream's page on Twitch says the fish has been playing for over 160 hours and selected his first Pokemon, a Charmanader and named it, “AAAABBK.” He even defeated his rival’s Squirtle in his first Pokemon battle.

Most of the time however, Hopper’s character just stays in one place. Regardless, the thousands of Twitch users in the chat area for the feed have been vocal throughout his gaming journey, asking the page owners several times if he was dead and if he had a heater. Most of the time though, they're just cheering him to move in a direction where he can advance the game.

"Things can move a little slow, so another option we're considering is making the system distributed where we have a site where you can provide a fish stream link and we'll include it in the controlling, “Grayson’s owners said on Twitch.

This new Pokemon project comes on the heels of the uber successful “Twitch Plays Pokemon,” which saw nearly 120,000 gamers play the original Pokemon game and beat in 17 days. Hacking into Twitch’s message box and using it as a controller, gamers were able to input commands into the game, straight from the chat box. That event garnered over 35 million page views on Twitch’s site.

Since then, the players have moved on to the next generation of games and have stepped up their collaborative efforts, creating a live Google Doc to track progress and allow other players to quickly jump in and contribute.

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Patrick Hickey Jr. is a lecturer of English and Journalism at Kingsborough Community College in Brooklyn, NY and is a former Weekend News Editor at NBC Local Integrated Media, where he served from 2012-2014. Hickey is also the founder and Editor-In-Chief of ReviewFix.com. During his time with the site, Hickey has covered the Sundance and Tribeca Film Festivals as well as the New York Comic Con. He also owns over 1,400 video games. Hickey finished his masters at the CUNY J-School in 2011.